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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
How to Find Peace
According to Brother David Steindl-Rast,
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach, from Simple Abundance
Grace and Gratitude
– Karl Barth
Happy Thanksgiving
We don’t need a lot of words when we talk with God. As Meister Eckhart, the Dominican mystic said,
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough
Gratitude and Divine Sparks
When we say “Grace” before we eat our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, let us remember the words of Rabbi Herschel:
By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food.
Gratitude Opens Us – Part 2
Many years ago I read the book Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer, by David Steindl-Rast, and loved it. The wisdom found there can be appreciated again and again. As we approach our national feast Thanksgiving, let us ask the Spirit to open our hearts to gratitude every day of the year.
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
– David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, Heart of Prayer
Gratitude Opens Us
Appreciation is the vessel for future blessings.
– Michael Berg
Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
New life and the color green – both remind me of hope. As I look out on evergreen trees from my window, I am reminded that the promise of life is all around me as the leaves of the not-so-evergreen trees fall to the ground.
Sharing Hope
People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.
– Joyce Rupp
May We All Become Lovers
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.
Shantideva, 8th century
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